We’re absolutely already at war. Our institutions are being used against us. However, we are resilient. Anecdotally, I admit to falling for Russian disinfo in the past. Mea culpa. Now I’m a lot more wary and open eyed about how this stuff is generated and spread. I think every day, a number of adults learn for the first time they were duped by online misinformation, and will take steps to prevent it in the future. Hopefully this process happens faster than our enemy is able to deceive us.
It was pretty clear during the protest that the Ottawa police were unable or unwilling to tackle the protest. Given the breakdown in the ability to restore order, most Canadians agree that the emergency was warranted.
Using the phrase "dictatorial powers" to describe a bill explicitly designed to balance rights and forward action is incindiary language.
>Ottawa police were unable or unwilling to tackle the protest
I have yet to hear a plausible explanation for why this was.
I am very uncomfortable with the idea that the police declining to do their job is sufficient to emergency powers.
There should be proportionate responses to illegal behavior. Not even attempting to regulate illegal behavior with the appropriate government response should not be a justification for more severe government response.
Local police sympathized based on their knowledge of living there. Outside police were brought in because they can abuse the people and then leave and not worry about being shamed. They needed non-locals to do the dirty work.
Advice and rules rarely seem to apply anything but pressure to parents. The real solve is building connection to and understanding of your children. Likely this won’t come from a template - although it can be a good framework to understand the possibility space and have ideas. Expect to try variations, and don’t ignore the pressure of ‘perfection’.
The only statement I’ve found true is: Whatever is hard now will go away - but it will be replaced with something harder. Parenting is a grind. Love your kids especially when it’s hard, learn your emotional responses and hang ups, let go of perfect.
It’s amazing how much pressure first time parents can put on themselves. The number of expectations is insane and impossible, and makes an already stressful situation worse.
Our first was difficult as well and advice never really applied. As a baby heavy metal actually worked well, which horrified my mother - but it’s all about finding something that works to calm them.
Great closing sentiment, so I’ll paraphrase: it will be hard to love your child sometimes. Love them always, keep them safe, treat them well, and show them the beauty in the world. What seems hard will get easier.
I give one piece of advice, heavily caveated, that running a vacuum cleaner helped calm my newborns when we brought them home from the hospital (advice from nurses line when our oldest was inconsolable at 4 days old). I then follow up that everyone parent is going to have advice that worked for them and their baby, and it can be tiring to hear but typically comes from a place of love. The parent-to-be will figure out what works for them. Reach out for help, they aren't alone, and so on.
This is a really important point - your own mental state is so crucial. Kids are hard, they can’t communicate well (or at all), and it’s the parent's job to figure out. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and consumed with emotions. Being ok with taking a break given everyone is safe helps rebuild energy and perspective.
Especially true for new parents - after the first you become more intuitive and understand the grind.
Well executed unique approach, great job! I’ve worked in games my whole life, and that’s hard to do!
Like others, I personally don’t like the time pressure and have really enjoyed the async one a day whenever format of wordle. It largely depends on your target audience and objectives for whether it’s right for this game. Separate zen/challenge modes would help players self select, but also muddies the onboarding. Great job though, fun game!
Thanks! Not sure what to do with it, to be honest.
I had trouble finding the game satisfying without some goal beyond just solving it. However, speed is not required unless you care — you can win without collecting the stars. Perhaps it would be enough to have a well-worded checkbox on the play page ("Chill mode," "don't pressure me", "I'll take my time", something).
Currently the game would seem to be balanced towards quickly "brute-forcing" the words one by one. E.g. I've now finished two Wednesdays under four minutes and average four stars while the game says "5½ minutes (with practice)", and English is a second language to me:
> Three Magic Words Wednesday/Week 5: ***** in 03:43/21 guesses
Good question! Cider is unfiltered and cloudy, and gets a rich brown colour from the pulp sediment. Apple juice is totally clear, and has been strained of all sediment.
As others mention hard cider is alcoholic, but most people just overload and use cider, and distinguish by context - which isn’t helpful. You can make hard cider from juice or cider, the flavour will differ, but it the name. However, most commercial cider is just flavoured malt liquor - which also gets the same name, so ingredient checking is important!
Cloudy apple juice is referred to in the UK, and most places apart from the USA, as "cloudy apple juice". Cloudy fermented apple juice is referred to in the UK as "scrumpy" or "scrumpy cider". It's mainly made in Herefordshire and the West Country, and it can be surprisingly strong; in many West Country pubs, they won't let you order a pint of scrumpy, they'll limit it to half-a-pint, unless you are known (or have a local accent).
I have heard, but I don't know, that it was customary to chuck an iron ploughshare into the cider fermenting vat; it would completely disappear by the end of fermentation. I have heard a similar tale about throwing in a horse's head - nothing left, dissolves completely.
I'm sure they don't use these adulterants in the production of commercial "hobo cider", such as White Lightning. But vegan "ciderpunks" should maybe ask questions about the scrumpy they are ordering.
> customary to chuck an iron ploughshare into the cider fermenting vat; it would completely disappear by the end of fermentation.
I have trouble believing that this was customary. It's absolutely the case that iron will dissolve in a large vat of fermenting apple cider, but the result will be a cider with some very odd and unpleasant colors and flavors. Not something that someone would want to induce intentionally. Most cidermaking books will instruct one to keep the cider from any contact with any iron, copper, or lead as all three will readily dissolve.
It sounds like a bonkers tale to me (which is partly why I related it here). I've never tried to make cider, and I've never read a cider-making book. It certainly doesn't sound like the kind of hygiene practice that is normal in fermenting processes. But I do have the impression that hygiene is not taken as seriously in cider-making as in, for example, beer-brewing.
Cider-making does have inherently less hygiene standards than beer-making. The apples have been outdoors for their entire lives, and spraying them with water only does so much. The cider itself is acidic enough that it's not a terribly hospitable environment for many microorganisms that would flourish in, for example, beer. Freshly pressed cider has plenty of other microbes swimming around in it, and while Campden tablets eliminate some, much of the success of the fermentation relies on your desired yeast simply out-competing and denying oxygen to the others.
Beer, by contrast, is boiled for an extended period of time prior to fermentation. This gives a sterile starting point, but doing something similar to cider will radically change the flavor.
Especially with scrumpy; it often (usually?) tastes pretty vinegary - not like commercial cider at all. I think it's much more refreshing and thirst-quenching than sweet commercial cider.
I like to cook with cider vinegar. It's refreshing, and relatively sweet. I'd say the difference between cider vinegar and scrumpy really comes down to a matter of degree.
It's surprising that vinegar is refreshing; but roman soldiers used to carry sour wine (vinegar) with their equipment.
And when a roman soldier (supposedly) passed a cloth soaked in vinegar to Jesus on the cross, he was passing him the most-refreshing thing he had - it wasn't some kind of sarcastic taunt.
That's very strange. Is this a versioning problem (i.e. Catalina not being supported anymore?) or is there some kind of hardware restriction?
From what I can find, Catalina should still be supported for more than a year from now, right?
Edit: well, that's bizarre. Caniuse.com [0] lists the same restriction, WebP is only available from Big Sur onwards. And then people wonder why nobody likes developing for Safari.
Safari uses AVFoundation and ImageIO for handling video and image data respectively. These frameworks are tied to OS releases. This ends up meaning the latest Safari on an older OS might not handle some formats/codecs.
So Safari gets free accelerated handling of new formats and codecs but only when the underlying OS supports them.
For media formats the support is often dependent on the OS. It's been that way forever (ask anyone deploying video in early html5 and getting it to work cross-os and cross-platform). I guess it's more expected with videos, but images are (usually) handled the same.
Maybe with hardware decoding, but software decoding is often done in browsers when hardware support is not available.
I suppose Apple doesn't want to include a software fallback for platforms where hardware isn't available to discourage developers from using the format. It's not like Apple would need to write any complicated decoding algorithms when there's already an open source implementation that's free to use.
H264 didn't work in FF on MacOS and Linux (but it still worked on windows) until v34 (and it only started working because Cisco donated a license), Ogg Vorbis only works on MacOS 11.3 or later in safari (and it also depends on which container you use), HEVC in IE/EdgeHTML depended on hardware (with no fallback to software whatsoever), AV1 in FF65 only worked on Windows, AV1 in FF66 only worked on Windows and MacOS, chrome on android 2.3 required you to specify a m4v without mime-type, but doing it with mime-type worked fine on desktop chrome.
I'm just saying it's not unprecedented to have the same browser version supporting different audio/video/image formats depending on OS or hardware.
For image formats it's not as usual, but if someone is making a site only supporting webp then I'd assume they'd look up some support matrixes beforehand.
That's because of the licensing issues, especially H.265/HEIF. AV1 has barely any hardware support and software decoding is terrible for performance, so while many browsers can easily build in support, it's not really worth it to enable it by default.
VP9 and WebP patents are all granted freely by Google. WebP images aren't as terrible for power consumption even in software because the browser doesn't decode 60 of them every second.
Regardless of that it's not uncommon to have the same browser version support different media codecs/formats.
Regarding the examples, when it comes to Ogg Vorbis there is no issue with software decoding (it's software everywhere), AV1 was granted software decode support on some OS'es but not others in the exact same browser, version and hardware (and IIRC it's the encoding perf that is especially bad for AV1, not decoding) and the chrome on android issue also shows how legal or hardware issues are not the only things limiting what is available (it can also be bugs that just stay around).
All I'm saying is that testing for browser version A is not a surefire test. Either check the support or test on browser A version B on OS C version D on hardware E (for each of the A/B/C/D/E variants) or just stick with what works across the board. Either way you probably won't end up shipping a site with only webp support.
Totally agree - the definition of done is really hard in creative work. Having a culture of refinement with the courage to ship early and often is a powerful tool to hone in on great results
Oh wow, yeah my first mobile game studio had a huge industrial fastener shelf with little drawers stuffed with different phones. We started in 2004, and feature phone game dev was indeed wild. We did a lot of WWE games in 2d and 3d, needing ~15 different reference builds ranging from 64k 2d builds to 800k 3d for high end, plus another set for all the BREW devices. Managing code, asset pipelines, and qa across high/med/low 2d/3d Java/cpp permutations was a huge challenge, but it was so satisfying to be good at. I love what mobile has turned into, and never want to debug another random c crash on device ever again, but I do miss the cabinet of phones and all the crazy variation
